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Record Number: NTE0037

Related Work: Castle Dangerous

Illustration Title/Caption: Castle Dangerous

Keyword(s): Chivalry - Churches & Churchyards - Fabian - Graves - Powheid, Lazarus - Soldiers - Valence, Sir Aymer de

Artist: Clarkson Stanfield

Engraver: James Johnstone

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 6.5 x 9

Date: 1833

Source Text: Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley [18mo issue], 6 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833)

Position in Source Text: vol. 12 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: BL 12604.a.4

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Sir Aymer de Valence, guided by old woman to the vaulted apartment of the sexton at Douglas Kirk, Lazarus Powheid, with the page Fabian looking on from the doorway [Ch. 9]. Matches #MAG0093, but with different engraver. Vol. also contains title-page vignette illustration of a river valley, probably Douglas Water, matching vol. 16 of 16mo issue, #NTD0049.

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